It’s also refreshing to see a film which features a loving, devoted family. Steven’s dad is somewhat strange, but he loves his two children and spends time with them. And Steven is very attached to his mother who creates a loving, happy atmosphere in their home. The only real hitch in the family relationships is the father’s obsession with science and his disdain for religion and belief in God. He softens somewhat, though, when his dying wife says “some of us want to believe there is a God,” and when Steven participates in the bar mitzvah studies and ceremony. The film’s only serious blemish is the use of a number of hells and damns, one obscenity and one muffled regular profanity. These are unfortunate, but overall UNSTRUNG HEROES is a poignant, funny, uplifting film.